The "m" is silent and "Zzzptm" is only one syllable..."The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko"Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke

GONNA STUDY THOUGH, CUZ THAT HELPS. Apparently the Singapore teams started studying in November...so picking up after decathlon is over doesn't really put a dent in the studying we'd need.

Man that just sucks. Sorry we totally bailed on you guys.............. not a happy day when we found out we weren't going. How far ahead were they? Was there really any way you guys could've had a chance?

GONNA STUDY THOUGH, CUZ THAT HELPS. Apparently the Singapore teams started studying in November...so picking up after decathlon is over doesn't really put a dent in the studying we'd need.

Man that just sucks. Sorry we totally bailed on you guys.............. not a happy day when we found out we weren't going. How far ahead were they? Was there really any way you guys could've had a chance?

The top scorer (as I understand it without Scholar's Bowl counting) was at 8500.

Also, though we were all speaking English, we were speaking something radically different from everyone else, and were pretty hard to understand in debate, though we did well enough in essay and speaking in the showcase.

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“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.” --Viktor E. Frankl

GONNA STUDY THOUGH, CUZ THAT HELPS. Apparently the Singapore teams started studying in November...so picking up after decathlon is over doesn't really put a dent in the studying we'd need.

Man that just sucks. Sorry we totally bailed on you guys.............. not a happy day when we found out we weren't going. How far ahead were they? Was there really any way you guys could've had a chance?

The top scorer (as I understand it without Scholar's Bowl counting) was at 8500.

Also, though we were all speaking English, we were speaking something radically different from everyone else, and were pretty hard to understand in debate, though we did well enough in essay and speaking in the showcase.

You probably forgot to insert an absurd amount of giggling into your rebuttals...

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatrioitic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."- Theodore RooseveltEditorial in the Kansas City Star May 7, 1918